The notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation is … addressed. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules, with the objective … innovation and returns to scale. We derive conditions for optimal diversity under different regimes of returns to scale …

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

Tax incentives for innovation, including in particular the incentives for R&D investments, are universally used policy …-jurisdictional competition theories relating to tax competition and (2) the (quasi-) public-good nature of knowledge and innovation. The analysis …

with external networks together enhance the probability that firms engage in product and process innovation. Following … data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2006-08. In order to control for potential endogeneity of the external …-owned firms which engage in backward networking for product and forward networking for process innovation while also undertaking R …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between innovation, R&D (Research and Development), and productivity … structural model (CDM model) that describes the link between innovation output, R&D and productivity for the Thai case. Various … of process innovation and product innovation. Exporting plants, plants in the central region, and plants that are …